What is a Quarantine Entry?
A Quarantine Entry (QE) is an electronic document created to record information regarding the clearance and movement of goods under quarantine control. Under the Quarantine Act 1908, importers are required to notify AQIS of the proposed importation. A Quarantine Entry, raised on the AQIS Information Management System (AIMS), is one method that is used to give notice of an import. Other methods include completing a passenger declaration card or completing a parcel declaration for international mail. For consignments imported via sea and airfreight, QEs are automatically generated via the ACS COMPILE system during the Customs entry process. If a consignment is flagged subject to quarantine (via profiling), the COMPILE system will generate an AIMS entry. In some cases, a commodity may not have been profiled as “subject to quarantine” and a manual AIMS entry can be generated. The decision to raise a QE is based on the way the commodity is imported and the operational program responsible fo
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